Muggeridge, Malcolm | Paul Beard (review date 1938)
Paul Beard (review date 1938)
SOURCE: Beard, Paul. In a Valley of This Restless Mind. The Criterion: 1922-1939 (1967): 375-78.
[In the following review of In a Valley of This Restless Mind, originally published in 1938, Beard criticizes Muggeridge's combination of philosophical and moral skepticism as leading to a degrading acceptance of contemporary society's more base and decayed habits and practices.]
Mr. Muggeridge has added another to those perplexed enquiries into the state of the modern world, and like one or two of his predecessors he has followed the Pilgrim's Progress as a model. In a series of loosely-linked fantasies, In a Valley of this Restless Mind endeavours, according to its dust-cover, to destroy some contemporary spiritual absolutes accused of disguising materialism; a task which may bear the emphasis either of defending the spiritual, or of attacking it. A short comparison between his world...
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